It has leaked that US chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Gen. Martin Dempsey warned the Israelis that if they launched a strike on […]

Quarter-billionaire Mitt Romney to Soledad O’Brien on CNN: “Romney says, “I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it […]

Courtesy Courtesy crudeoilpeak.info Europe doesn’t loom that large already. And, Asia and other global South areas would take up the slack.

Taylor Marsh writes in a guest column for Informed Comment The Party’s Over There’s a reason Obama reelect doesn’t have a slogan. All they’ve got […]

All of a sudden, the Strait of Hormuz has become the most combustible spot on the planet, the most likely place to witness a major conflict between well-armed adversaries.  Why, of all locales, has it become so explosive?

Reverse the story, though, and it immediately becomes a malign, if unimaginable, fairy tale.  Of course, no Iranian elite forces will ever operate along the U.S. border…